New Project: THE SONG. Time to get out the sand box, because I’m going to spend the next while working on only one song. But it’s going to be the best song of…well, 2008 hopefully, but I’ll accept 2002 or even 1997. I’m thinking “Good Vibrations” meets “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” for dinner where “Jesus Of Suburbia” is the sommelier and “Sowing the Seeds of Love” is the overly-jolly restaurant owner. If you can make any sense out of that, you’re probably thinking, “Oh it’s going to be one of THOSE songs.” But no, it’s not going to be “epic,” prog or pretentious at all. It probably won’t even be any longer than 5 minutes tops. The project is more of a method thing than anything, but it should have a cut-up kind of sound like the aforementioned “Good Vibrations” and “Happiness Is A Warm Gun.” I kind of already did that with “McCain Campaign,” but this time it’ll be more developed, as well as being an ACTUAL SONG. I just thought it would be interesting to see what happens when I make one song in the amount of time I’d normally spend writing and recording an album. The end result will be on Public Domain Rainbow, which is otherwise finished now. I started writing THE SONG on August 8 and I’ve come up with a handful of killer melodies so far, so get ready and fearful for THE SONG.

Last Thursday Mayhaw Hoons and I went to the KINK studio and recorded two songs for broadcast at a later date (Sept. 2 and 3 I believe). It’s to promote their new Plug In Portland sampler that I’m on. We recorded “Coldplay Got Eaten By Piranhas” and “Not Salman Rushdie.” Mayhaw’s bassing was exquisite. We were in and out of there so fast that it makes My Aim Is True look like Chinese Democracy. It was a total musical invasion of South Ossetia.

Prolongedly,
Alex

Hey, sorry for the wonkiness that made the site not work here today. Turned out to be something very minor, but you know how those things are. They are headache inducing. Anyway, things should be back to normal now.

And course, the downtime just had to happen on the day that 94.7 FM features me on their weekly Get Local segment! But yes, Squid (sitting in for Jaime Cooley) played “Coldplay Got Eaten By Piranhas” earlier, along with two other Portland area bands. That’s super awesome, thanks guys, and especially to Jaime Cooley! Grass-ee-us!

Alex

The ghost of a new album is starting appear on the horizon, believe it or not. Alex has been recording two full production demos a day for the past several days, including “Coldplay Got Eaten By Piranhas,” “Update Your Blog” and “Corn Dog Shaped Like California.” So far, the new songs sound like Huey Lewis being tortured in Gitmo with an electric accordion and a feather duster. Everything is sounding especially rad.

We at the HQ are thinking of starting a Podcast. Would there be interest in this? Apparently it’s harder than it seems to do everything to the technical specs that iTunes requires for the file formats and everything. Sounds like it would be pretty fun though eh?

Also, if you want Alex to come play in your city, drop us a note so Alex can see if it would be feasible to do a solo tour sometime. The power is in your paws! And your proboscis!!

Squawk,
The Albatross